Swine Flu shots - remember Fort Dix in '76

Swine Flu shots - remember Fort Dix in '76!

Dr Crippen does:


In 1976, after a swine flu outbreak at Fort Dix in the US, a vaccine was hastily manufactured. It had to be withdrawn a few weeks later as it was causing serious neurological problems.


Within weeks, reports surfaced of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease that can be caused by the vaccine. By April, more than 30 people had died of the condition.


Dr C continues:


Science has moved on since then, you may say. That could not happen now. But, if governments have confidence in the safety of the vaccine, why has Kathleen Sebelius, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, felt it necessary to sign a document making federal officials and vaccine makers immune from lawsuits related to any ill-effects from the vaccine?


Why has the UK government sent letters to neurologists asking them to be on the alert for neurological complications caused by the immunisation?